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Post subject: Re: Caring for a Konosuke HD2 and Stropping it

Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2014 12:46 pm

Joined: Sat Mar 01, 2014 1:15 amPosts: 2996Location: Raleigh, NC

Oh, haha, yes, that would be a good reason to ask why.

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Post subject: Re: Caring for a Konosuke HD2 and Stropping it

Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2014 12:47 pm

Joined: Tue Feb 19, 2013 8:22 pmPosts: 1525

I had a curved front refrigerator once. An old Frigidaire that I liberated out of an abandoned building at work. Pink interior with a hand brushed chocolate brown exterior. A real treat for the eyes.

I ended up giving it to a bunch of enlisted kids, along with a waterbed and a sofa/love seat combo adorned in electric blue with white stripe velour. Classic, yet restrained.

These days that fridge would probably bring mad cash from some hipster.

robenco15

Post subject: Re: Caring for a Konosuke HD2 and Stropping it

Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2014 5:19 pm

Joined: Mon Jan 20, 2014 10:48 pmPosts: 192

Can you strop the knife too much? To the point where you are hurting it? When the first got the knife I did the tomato slicing trick that is shown in the video on the product page. So it was very sharp out of the box. After using it a bunch over the last two days I went to do the tomato slicing trick and it didn't work as well so I stropped it. Sure enough it went back to its OOTB sharpness.

I stropped on the Balsa with the 3 micron paste, 10 times on the one side, then 10 on the other, then 5 on the one side, then 5 on the other, then 4, 3, 2, 1. Then I did 5,4,3,2,1 on each side on the horse leather.

That obviously worked very well as I could do that tomato slicing demonstration afterwards, but as I was doing it I was wondering if I could be doing any harm to the knife.

Thanks for the help as this is all new to me. I am really enjoying stropping though. Can't wait to get to sharpening!

whosthebestcop

Post subject: Re: Caring for a Konosuke HD2 and Stropping it

Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2014 8:17 pm

Joined: Sun May 18, 2014 7:52 pmPosts: 593Location: Philly

Just speaking in general if you were applying really heavy pressure and using a harder type leather strop then you could round off your edge.

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